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by danwee 3y ago
> This is an interesting use case, I could see why GraphQL would be useful here where the contract between frontend and backend modules is not known in full and can change often. But that's a misconception. If your contracts between
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by danwee 3y ago
I don't. Not because of the idea of itself (I think the idea is good), but because of the implementation: we need yet another layer of abstraction to make it happen. I would use GraphQL if it were natively supported (just like GET&#x2F
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by danwee 3y ago
It's because Apple is a (top) hardware company (and a software one) and they have years of experience at it. Meta is a software company; they could become a hardware company, but that doesn't happen in just a few years.
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by danwee 3y ago
Google Search is in decline for the users who know how the internet works. For my mother, the internet is still Google (and would remain like that no matter what). For me, for some friends of mine, and for many of my colleagues who know mor
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by danwee 3y ago
> There's more to a job than the salary That only works for people who are earning a lot. I mean, for SV engineers there's probably a big difference between company A paying $350K/year with 10 days of vacation per year, an
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by danwee 3y ago
If you're looking for a "junior" and you don't know what a "junior" means, then that's your problem, no? I mean, if you are willing to pay X for position Y, you (your company) should know exactly what you
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by danwee 3y ago
The junior version of myself would agree: when you are a junior you have little power of negotiation and you accept whatever the company offers to you at the end of the interview cycle (besides, if you manage to get to the end of the cycle,
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by danwee 3y ago
Go + Ansible
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by danwee 3y ago
But they are not hiring worldwide. Their openings clearly state: UK (and remote, within UK). So, I don't understand how they are hiring in the UK with such low salary ranges
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by danwee 3y ago
That's the median. It's like saying the median salary for software engineers in US is $120K/year (which is "true" if you Google it)... but then all the Silicon Valley engineers would say "whaaaat? Here the juni
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by danwee 3y ago
> median salary for a developer in Spain is $30,000 a year[1], so 50-80k would easily place them in the upper 10% of the scale. That's right and wrong and the same time. If we are talking about non-junior positions: Developers in Sp
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by danwee 3y ago
I don't understand something: "Cloudflare workers" are, at the end of the day, computers, right? Probably virtual ones (either VMs or containers). So, why is the ability of creating TCP sockets a feature? Why their "clou
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by danwee 3y ago
Same. In 4th position "Chef". Then in the "Highest Paying Jobs in Tech" chart we have the following entries "Back-end software engineer", "Full-stack developer" and "Software developer". I m
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Ask HN: Should QA engineers write unit/integration tests?
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by danwee 3y ago
66% if my time I would spend it on myself (getting healthier, getting mentally stimulated, etc.) 34% of my time would be spent trying to solve the biggest problems of humanity (for this I would ask my benevolent Texan Billionaire more money
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by danwee 3y ago
Got it. I guess I'm slow today.
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by danwee 3y ago
> Just upload your documents or add a link to your website and get a ChatGPT-like chatbot for your data. Then add it as a widget to your website or chat with it through the API. But, that means they are uploading customer data to OpenAI
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by danwee 3y ago
Perhaps I missed the irony. But why do you think that is hostile?
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by danwee 3y ago
I'm on the same boat. I started to use Nginx for side projects a while ago. When things became a little more serious and I needed decent metrics, my only option was to upgrade to Nginx Plus. So now I'm learning Caddy.
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by danwee 3y ago
I didn't mean to change the name. I meant: - create repo MyGenericGPT that contains generic code - create repo GirlfriendGPT that uses MyGenericGTP as base. Advertise this as usual
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by danwee 3y ago
There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like
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by danwee 3y ago
That's what they thought 50 years ago. Programming is not anymore "mov eax,1" and "int 0x80". Programming nowadays is much more highly accessible than it was 50 years ago... but still only a few (programmers) do it.
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by danwee 3y ago
It works in plenty of countries all around the world. Not sure why it couldn't work in the USA.
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by danwee 3y ago
I certainly like that companies are introducing yet another step in the IC ladder. Before it was like: junior1 -> junior2 -> senior1 -> senior2 -> manager. And the money you get by being junior2/junior2/senior1 is not
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by danwee 3y ago
For me: JavaScript === C TypeScrit === C++ You can shoot yourself in the foot writing vanilla JavaScript. There should be a book "TypeScript: The Good Parts" though: the language brings a lot of stuff that is better not to use.
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by danwee 3y ago
What's the best e-reader (A4 size) out there? The feature I care the most is: reading PDFs as if I were reading them on paper. The second feature I care the most is: easy way to upload PDFs (e.g., plug and play via usb?). I don't
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by danwee 3y ago
> Folding phones are a neat idea, and as a technical achievement, this is impressive. But in terms of price and practicality? I don't really see the appeal or value. I thought that was the consensus... It surprises me that Google is
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by danwee 3y ago
From 1899 euros in Europe. Certainly, I don't really know who feels comfortable using a 2K euros device while walking down the street every single day. I would be so worried about it being lost, getting scratch or what not. Besides, it
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by danwee 3y ago
I was very enthusiastic about Google I/O in the past (around the year 2010). Full of nice tech talks; I learned a lot. These years, I couldn't care less. It's all business talk. I guess developers are not the target audience
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by danwee 3y ago
On my book, sufficient money to quit the rat race is: I own a place to live. Renting/mortgage is my biggest expense. As long as I don't own a place to live, I need to continue working.

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